“The chain-of-command is designed to bring order to chaos. We have always used the KNOW method. Who knows more than you should be higher in leadership status. Your method seems to instill more confidence in the soldiers for their leaders, and produces far faster buy-in to the orders given them. Did everyone choose the sergeants and then the sergeants self-selected who wasn’t ready – those became corporals? Then the sergeants suggested who would make good lieutenants up the chain.
